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Dreams, Werewolves, and the Spiritual Power of Paint

This third installment of The Floodwood Chronicles finds Artemis Fletcher once again on assignment.

What starts out as a simple gig protecting a surrealist art show in 1967 Mexico City quickly spirals into a luminous mystery involving dream therapy, curanderas, sacred markets, and a gallery of ancestors who may not be as dead as we think. Alongside the effervescent and enigmatic Viviana Villalobos, painter, healer, and possibly something else entirely, Artemis is drawn into a world where magic is real, memory is medicine, and the line between art and spirit blurs into something rich and strange.

From the bustling mercados of Mexico to moonlit dreamscapes and the surreal, visionary canvases of Remedios Varo, Pete Kennedy gives us another wild, warm-hearted ride through history, art, folklore, and high adventure. The Floodwood Chronicles continue to read like Indiana Jones teamed up with a crossbow-wielding mystic who moonlights as an art history professor. —Gareth Branwyn, writer, editor, and author of Borg Like Me

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In 1998 Parthenon Huxley, widowed and unemployed, successfully auditions to be the guitarist/singer for Electric Light Orchestra Part II, led by ELO’s Bev Bevan. After years of ups and downs in the tough-luck music business, Huxley’s life trajectory changes for the better—lavish tours, world-class bandmates, fan adulation—until events threaten to pull it all apart.

Driven by a fluid, enthused writing style, Electric Light Odyssey (Highpoint Lit; 444 pages; 6" x 9"; 979-8-9908488-1-8) is packed with captivating and often hilarious anecdotes about the rock ‘n’ roll life—from sharing an invisible joint with Paul McCartney and being serenaded at his wedding by Stephen Stills, to singing harmony with Brian Wilson, performing with Linda Ronstadt, and much more.

A must-read for music lovers, aspiring artists, and fans of triumph-over-adversity stories, Electric Light Odyssey chronicles Huxley’s life journey as he grows from budding songwriter to rock n’ roll veteran with the scars and rewards to show for it. Huxley fearlessly leads the reader on a tour of his thrilling wins, humbling failures, and heart-stopping personal drama.

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Parthenon Huxley is lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter for The Orchestra Starring ELO Former Members. He wrote his first song at age ten in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and has chased his muse ever since as an indie artist, staff songwriter for MCA Music Publishing, recording artist for Columbia and Universal Records, producer of film and TV music, and other roles. Four of his nine studio albums have earned Album of the Year awards. Huxley holds a B.A. in Journalism from UNC Chapel Hill and honed his skills writing rock criticism for Spectator Magazine in the 1980s. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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It was late 1980s when two off-the-chart babies were born in West Los Angeles, California. Geoffrey and Mitchell Schwartz popped out at the 95th percentile and never looked back. ultimately parlaying their physical and intellectual attributes into lengthy NFL careers and a Super Bowl for Mitchell. Raising Giants is Lee Schwartz’s memorialization of his extraordinary twenty-year journey with his two sons.

In this book you’ll discover:

The highs, lows and gotchas of the college recruiting process.
The not-so-savory details of the NFL as a business.
Being Jewish in the NFL.
What goes on behind-the-scenes at the Super Bowl, dealing with famous coaches and more.

“With Raising Giants, Lee Schwartz has lifted the curtain on the occasional frustrations and many joys of a family’s journey along the sometimes twisted pathway through high school, college and pro football.” – Phil Knight, University of Oregon alum, philanthropist and co-founder of Nike

“Having witnessed this journey up close as Mitchell’s coach and then from afar during his NFL career, I am convinced that you’ll enjoy Lee’s accounts and stories about his sons’ journeys.” – Jeff Tedford, former Head Coach, California Golden Bears